Mad

/s?

maybe it takes a lot to grow them up, and they have to be fed regularly too

for a sub to show up in your search it needs to have been accessed by the instance before. to force it to access the sub, paste the link (yes, the literal HTTP link) into the search bar. it may not work on the app, but it definitely will on the web frontend

this is a pretty interesting system. if this was the intended usage, Reddit did an absolutely terrible UX job, because any sane person would assume that downvotes are of equivalent value to upvotes, are the opposite of upvotes, and that if you are not upvoting you should probably downvote. if lemmy would like to encourage this type of usage, it should make that evident in its ux by putting downvotes in a menu, making the icon more scary/violent, or forcing you to confirm them. i would personally prefer the second idea, but it would also be the hardest to implement as you’d need to spend a lot of time designing a good symbol, whereas the others are just a very simple ui tweak.